Raven
Shares rank 4 of 10 agent harnesses by recommenders
Coordinates Claude Code, Codex and its own agents in one shared task graph; critics say it duplicates features those harnesses already have and that its coordination DAG is not durable.
Coordinates Claude Code, Codex and its own agents in one shared task graph; critics say it duplicates features those harnesses already have and that its coordination DAG is not durable.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 73%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Praised readme and writing style
“That's one of the most beautiful readmes I've seen in my whole life.”
Comment from 29 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI” “describes existential dread so well”
Comment from 14 Oct 2026 in “The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography (2024)”
Other agent harnesses people recommend
The four most recommended other agent harnesses, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hermes Agent by Nous Research | 129 | 32 | 80% | 10 | 1 mo3 owners | Approved |
| Munder Difflin | 11 | 10 | 52% | 1 | — | — |
| Omnigent | 10 | 1 | 91% | 4 | — | Approved |
| RavenThis page | 8 | 3 | 73% | 3 | — | — |
| Gambit agent harness | 8 | 0 | 100% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
All 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“describes existential dread so well”
“To me the really bad sign is that this is the benchmark that they selected to highlight.”
“this seems like its probably just a massive waste of tokens”
“This project seems to prove that this is indeed the case.”
“"One prompt in. One result out." is of any importance”
“That's one of the most beautiful readmes I've seen in my whole life.”
“Why do none of the projects it built work on my machine?”
“the DAG it uses to coordinate other harnesses doesn't look to be durable”
“I'm not in buying into their whole system”
“tend to duplicate certain capabilities that those harnesses handle on their own”
“Raven brings Claude Code, Codex, and its own Research, Code, Design, and Oncall agents into a shared task graph.”
“That seems to have an impact on the conversational style of the replicas output, in a good way.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.